thousandfold

Meanings

Adjective

• Multiplied by one thousand (1000), repeated a thousand times.
• Having one thousand parts or members.

Adverb

• By a factor of a thousand.

Origin

• From Middle English thusendfold, thusendfeld, from Old English þūsendfeald, from Proto-Germanic *þūsundīfalþaz, corresponding to thousand + -fold. Cognate with Dutch duizendvoud, duizendvoudig, German tausendfältig, Danish tusindfold, Swedish tusendfalt, tusendfaltig, Icelandic þúsundfalt.